Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Trudeau's theatrical address to military on climate change and disinformation leaves troops questioning his priorities

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Justin Trudeau has some really weird spending priorities for the military and veterans.

00:00:23.280 The cupboard is bare, but for his own pet causes, he's got billions to squander.

00:00:30.000 It's Tuesday, July 11th, 2023. I'm David Menzies, and this is The Ezra Levent Show.

00:00:37.940 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:44.280 You could tell Justin Trudeau was addressing a predominantly male audience that works with their hands the other day. 0.68

00:01:01.500 That's because the former part-time drama teacher went into blue collar mode, you know, losing the suit jacket, getting rid of the necktie, rolling up his shirt sleeves.

00:01:15.500 This is what Blackface does when he is addressing plumbers or carpenters or firefighters. 1.00

00:01:22.060 He wants to show that he's one of them, even though I doubt Blackface has ever done anything physical throughout his privileged and pampered life. 0.92

00:01:34.540 Don't be silly. I'm capable of playing any role, even with half the finger.

00:01:39.740 Ugh. How did that happen?

00:01:42.220 It didn't. Acting.

00:01:43.560 In any event, the audience this time around for Canada's version of Master Thespian was Canadian troops stationed overseas.

00:01:55.460 At least the prime ministerial version of Mr. Dress Up didn't don a soldier costume to pretend he's one of the gang, unlike his Indian trip a few years ago.

00:02:07.880 So you remember that dress up disaster for the ages, don't you?

00:02:22.020 Anyway, here's Blackface giving an address to the troops in Latvia. 0.86

00:02:28.060 It's bizarre.

00:02:29.260 I've learned what an atmospheric river was when it hit BC. Climate change is having a real destabilizing and negative impact with more and more frequent extreme weather events at home.

00:02:43.000 And as challenging as it is at home, the impacts around the world where people are in more precarious economic and geographic situations than we are, that's a new reality that has huge implications for security around the world,

00:02:59.460 which is one of the reasons why Canada is stepping up to build the centre of excellence for climate security in Montreal.

00:03:08.260 That's one of the announcements we're going to be making tomorrow at the NATO summit.

00:03:12.920 Because everywhere in the world, but particularly in areas where there is particular intersections between geographic and climate realities and conflict – think of the Sahel, think of parts of Southeast Asia – that's going to be a new challenge we all have to deal with.

00:03:30.920 We're also dealing with the hangover of the pandemic that knocked us around as economies, but also knocked us around as individuals, put a lot of stress on families, people trying to figure out a way through, add the extra challenges of social media and levels of misinformation and disinformation that, you know, had friends carried off by it.

00:03:56.720 No, you are not hallucinating, folks.

00:04:00.260 Blackface was lecturing soldiers on climate change and disinformation, presumably the disinformation being contrarian viewpoints regarding climate change.

00:04:14.680 If I'm a member of the Armed Forces in that audience, what am I to think about this surreal virtue-signalling sermon?

00:04:24.220 That war is hell, but it's especially hellish for Mother Nature, given all those carbon emissions that result from fighter jets flying and tanks plodding along.

00:04:37.980 And let's not forget the emissions from bullets being shot and bombs blowing up real good.

00:04:43.960 So is Blackface suggesting that the Canadian military needs to, oh, I don't know, mothball its weaponry so as to, you know, reduce its carbon footprint?

00:04:57.320 That's a hell of a way to fight a war, let me tell you.

00:05:01.020 It reminds me of that classic scene in the 1986 sci-fi masterpiece, Aliens.

00:05:07.080 Look, uh, a poem.

00:05:12.920 Look, we can't have any firing in there.

00:05:16.360 I, uh, I want you to collect magazines from everybody.

00:05:19.820 Is he fucking crazy?

00:05:21.360 What the hell are we supposed to use, man? Harsh language?

00:05:23.940 Yeah, guys, put down your carbon-producing bombs and utter F-bombs instead.

00:05:30.420 And remember that Greta Tunberg loves you?

00:05:33.080 What a weirdo.

00:05:35.520 And hey, how cheap can you get?

00:05:38.800 Do you know that those troops in Latvia are actually paying for their own kit?

00:05:45.500 Even the state propagandist, or I mean state broadcaster, finds this egregious and embarrassing.

00:05:51.540 The CBC notes that a battle group of almost 1,500 soldiers, including more than 700 Canadians,

00:06:00.040 have been forced to buy their own modern ballistic helmets, rain gear, vests, and belts to carry water and ammunition.

00:06:11.160 Then again, forget about the ammo part.

00:06:13.940 That stuff is too, you know, climate changey.

00:06:17.320 But can you imagine this sort of disrespect directed at our troops?

00:06:23.640 But we know why Trudeau is such a skinflint when it comes to the armed forces.

00:06:29.720 Remember what Blackface told one particular veteran back in Edmonton in 2018?

00:06:35.400 You made the promise, and I'll quote it here.

00:06:40.220 No veteran will be forced to fight their own government for the support and compensation they have earned.

00:06:45.100 Yet you are still currently in a legal battle with veterans regarding equal support and compensation to their peers.

00:06:54.320 You have ISIL or ISIS members coming into a reintegration program.

00:07:02.020 You did a backdoor deal with Omar Khadar with not even stepping into the courtroom.

00:07:08.220 You know, so again, my question is, what veterans were you talking about?

00:07:13.760 Was it the ones that fought for the freedoms and values that you so proudly boast about,

00:07:18.260 or was it the ones who fought against?

00:07:21.220 Because honestly, Mr. Prime Minister, I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty when I joined the military.

00:07:28.880 Nobody forced me to join the military.

00:07:31.100 I was prepared to be killed in action.

00:07:35.620 What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister, is Canada turning its back on me.

00:07:40.380 So which veteran was it that you were talking about?

00:07:51.660 Why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court?

00:07:57.100 Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now.

00:08:02.020 Yeah, veterans asking for the bare necessities to sustain life are asking for too much.

00:08:09.260 Meanwhile, Blackface could hardly wait to stuff a check for $10.5 million into the pockets of our homegrown Al-Qaeda terrorist, Omar Khadar, 0.97

00:08:19.720 because this jabroni jihadi suffered from hurt feelings while detained at Gitmo Bay.

00:08:28.020 And isn't it interesting that when Blackface hits the road on the taxpayer dime, of course, 0.97

00:08:33.520 he ain't staying at the Motel 6, but rather when he drops anchor at a room, it's going for $6,000 a night.

00:08:44.480 Seriously, is this guy a psychopath or a narcissist or both?

00:08:49.900 But just like Daddy, that would be Pierre Elliott Trudeau, by the way, not a former leader of a Caribbean dictatorship.

00:08:59.280 Blackface is a cheapskate when it comes to military matters too. 1.00

00:09:04.880 Canada is one of the worst nations in NATO when it comes to meeting our spending commitments.

00:09:12.040 But instead of doing the right thing and increasing those expenditures,

00:09:17.180 Blackface is trying to change the rules in terms of what counts as spending. 1.00

00:09:24.060 Yes, he's engaging in accounting trickery.

00:09:28.000 Canada, like other NATO members, is supposed to be spending 2% of its gross domestic product on NATO,

00:09:35.980 but we're only forking over 1.29%.

00:09:40.840 An unidentified government source recently said the following,

00:09:45.440 I think our record as a government is clear.

00:09:50.280 We've increased our defence spending by 70% since 2015.

00:09:55.400 We've made a series of incremental investments.

00:09:59.500 Wow, did you hear that?

00:10:01.760 Defence spending up by 70%.

00:10:04.440 A series of incremental investments.

00:10:08.640 Translation, those investments still fall far short of the NATO goal.

00:10:15.300 Folks, are you experiencing a Clara Peller moment right now?

00:10:20.560 Why is the beef?

00:10:21.840 But you know, it all comes down to priorities for Blackface when he goes on a spending spree, doesn't it? 1.00

00:10:27.860 The cupboard is bare for veterans asking for an uptick in their benefits.

00:10:32.820 Likewise, the piggy bank is empty when it comes to troops currently serving overseas.

00:10:39.300 Maybe among the hockey players amongst them, they can bring their own CCM helmets on their next tour of duty.

00:10:46.340 Better than nothing, I suppose.

00:10:48.620 But terrorists get cash-for-life payments.

00:10:51.880 And Blackface has some $100 million in the kitty to give to the Haitian police. 0.97

00:11:00.040 Oh, I'm sure that money will be well spent.

00:11:03.400 Blackface has also committed some $8 billion to Ukraine.

00:11:07.620 And check out those two battery-producing plants being built in Ontario and the one in Quebec.

00:11:15.040 That roll of the EV dice amounts to almost $50 billion in taxpayer pork.

00:11:22.700 $50 billion?

00:11:24.600 Is Blackface reinventing himself as Dr. Evil these days? 1.00

00:11:30.100 $100 billion.

00:11:32.360 But at the end of the day, I guess we need to cut Trudeau some slack.

00:11:38.500 He's a family man after all.

00:11:40.440 Surely he feels the sting of grocery prices and the price of gas at the pump when he fills up daddy's uber-cool vintage Mercedes-Benz.

00:11:49.780 And worst of all, have you checked out the price of a 100-gram tin of Coco Happy these days, folks?

00:11:59.200 $10.99?

00:12:00.840 $10.99?

00:12:02.940 That's outrageous!

00:12:04.740 Oh, what's that?

00:12:05.720 You don't know what Coco Happy is?

00:12:08.200 Oh, I'm so sorry.

00:12:09.160 I forgot.

00:12:10.300 You all live in the real world, a world in which Halloween only occurs once a year.

00:12:15.540 You see, Coco Happy is Justin's favorite brand of blackface makeup. 0.99

00:12:21.100 Oh, it's true.

00:12:22.240 It's true, I tell you.

00:12:23.820 Check out Coco Happy's slogan.

00:12:25.960 Quote, the first choice of professional clowns and mimes.

00:12:31.420 End quote.

00:12:32.240 Ho, ho. 1.00

00:12:33.080 Talk about truth in advertising.

00:12:35.140 In 2021, Gleb Lissick wanted to send his son to a summer course offered by his local high school.

00:12:56.320 Alas, his son was rejected from attending the course, which was all about learning Java programming.

00:13:02.860 It had nothing to do with the lad lacking prerequisites.

00:13:07.460 Rather, Gleb's son was given the boot based on skin color?

00:13:13.960 Good golly.

00:13:15.440 How could a school, and for that matter, the Ontario Ministry of Education, tolerate such blatant racism?

00:13:23.720 So it was that Gleb reached out to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, only to be shocked by the fact that the Ontario Human Rights racketeers had absolutely no problem with such blatant racism either.

00:13:40.480 You see, when it comes to the Ministry of Education and the Ontario Human Rights Commission, racism in general is very bad, but in certain cases, racism is jolly good.

00:13:55.820 Which is to say, in this particular case, Gleb's son was refused entry because it was only open to black students.

00:14:08.020 For those kids who weren't black, it wasn't a matter of being relegated to the back of the bus, but rather, they were told to get the hell off the bus.

00:14:17.740 That's absolutely incredible.

00:14:20.360 And joining me now is Gleb Leszek himself, who recently wrote about his ordeal in C2C Journal.

00:14:27.260 His article is entitled, One Flew Over the Kangaroo Court, My Fight Against Human Rights Tyranny.

00:14:35.660 Hey there, Gleb.

00:14:36.640 Thank you so much for joining me.

00:14:38.500 I read your article.

00:14:40.620 It's downright surreal.

00:14:42.440 I think that's the only word.

00:14:43.560 How is it that we are now living in a province in which selective racism is not only tolerated by the government, but it's also government approved?

00:14:58.200 That's an interesting question.

00:15:00.280 And more interesting is why you're asking me why we're living in this.

00:15:05.080 I left the Soviet Union in 2000, and it was one of the reasons, probably, for me to leave.

00:15:15.480 At that time, it was no longer a Soviet Union, but I had a full experience of that type of an attitude. 0.99

00:15:22.240 And why we are living in Canada, I don't know.

00:15:25.520 With this type of attitudes where people can be segregated by all kinds of features, I don't know, irrelevant features, I guess, in this particular case, for educational purposes, why would the government segregate people by race, by the skin color?

00:15:43.880 Gleb, I think, isn't there some bitter irony here?

00:15:48.060 Because I think if there's one individual on the planet currently rolling in his grave right now about this kind of approved racism, it's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

00:16:01.160 Some 50 years ago, he had the famous speech where he asked that someone not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character.

00:16:13.680 But the progressive left has done a 180 on this.

00:16:16.880 Now they are judging people on the color of their skin.

00:16:21.580 This is not anti-racism.

00:16:23.860 This is racism, you know, by the very definition.

00:16:28.400 I'm just wondering how it is we got here in the first place.

00:16:35.380 I personally don't like the term anti-racism.

00:16:38.820 I agree with you.

00:16:39.660 It's just plain racism.

00:16:41.300 There's no such thing as anti-racism.

00:16:45.840 It doesn't matter what skin color you have. 0.59

00:16:50.180 If you are judged by that skin color, it is racism.

00:16:55.080 Although the Human Rights Tribunal thinks slightly differently, they think that the white people cannot be discriminated against.

00:17:04.640 So that's, I guess, why this term anti-racism is popping up.

00:17:09.340 I go back to yesterdecade.

00:17:11.460 For example, Gleb, my wife is originally from South Africa.

00:17:15.240 She moved, her and her family moved here in 1976.

00:17:20.320 And I think South Africa was made a pariah, and rightfully so, for its odious system of apartheid. 0.58

00:17:30.100 I mean, it was absolutely surreal that a white minority had extra special rights compared to the black majority. 1.00

00:17:38.400 And there was boycotts, divestment, sanctioned, South Africa couldn't go to the World Cup or the Olympics.

00:17:45.540 I get it.

00:17:46.780 But we've moved away from condemning apartheid-style racism to embracing it, it would seem.

00:17:55.060 I guess the official explanation to that, and I wrote about this in my article,

00:17:59.060 is that there's that set of idea that there are ameliorating actions that are designed to bridge the gaps

00:18:08.400 in between so-called oppressed or racialized minorities, the blacks being one of them.

00:18:17.500 And this is a bit of a weird idea for me, in which way, let's say, the young people, the students,

00:18:27.660 teenagers or college grads are oppressed or racialized.

00:18:34.020 There's no such thing in Canada, from my experience at least, right?

00:18:39.060 And the whole idea of ameliorating, somehow compensating those happened 100 years ago is appalling and absurd.

00:18:54.800 But that's the reason for that, right?

00:18:56.500 Somehow there's that, I guess I can call it a critical race theory,

00:19:02.900 that purports that somehow through there's that generational gap that people still suffer for.

00:19:15.060 Really, it's an unexplainable reason.

00:19:17.100 It's difficult for me to explain it because I don't understand it, right?

00:19:20.260 It makes no sense to me.

00:19:21.500 And in my article, I also gave an example that, let's say, well, in ancient times,

00:19:29.840 in the beginning of the second millennia, Russia was oppressed by Mongol hordes, right? 0.77

00:19:39.240 So they were under the Mongol hordes for 200, 300 years.

00:19:43.240 So does that make me a racialized minority now because I suffer this cross-generational trauma

00:19:52.920 dating back almost 2,000 years?

00:19:58.800 That's absurd.

00:19:59.960 Like, I mean, how long does that generational trauma, even if it existed, how long it's going to last?

00:20:06.060 How do we measure if whatever ameliorating actions are being put in place

00:20:11.460 are actually helping to bridge the gap?

00:20:14.240 Is there a gap?

00:20:15.180 How do we measure that gap?

00:20:16.980 Is that the skin color is the primary reason for that gap, whatever it is?

00:20:22.420 There are so many questions.

00:20:23.840 And sorry, I'm kind of rambling here.

00:20:25.700 No, no, not at all.

00:20:26.580 But, you know, you mentioned critical race theory.

00:20:28.680 But that's the thing, Gleb.

00:20:29.860 Critical race theory in and of itself is highly racist.

00:20:35.620 I mean, there's no getting around that.

00:20:37.720 And more to the point, Gleb, this is a hypothetical question because no one was ever asked.

00:20:45.920 But I'm curious if this is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

00:20:53.780 In other words, had you or I gone into that class that was 100% comprised of black students,

00:21:02.280 and we asked them, would you mind if there were white kids here, Asian kids, you know, brown kids?

00:21:09.260 Would this be a problem?

00:21:11.180 I really wonder if the answer would be, no, no, no, we want it 100% segregated.

00:21:17.360 We're happy with this being an all-black class.

00:21:19.940 Or maybe the answer is, no, we're happy, you know, anyone's welcome here.

00:21:28.060 How do you, that's what I'm getting at.

00:21:30.260 I'm wondering if the kids themselves really buy into this, or is it really all the social engineers behind the scenes

00:21:40.920 that are designing these kind of odious race-based systems? 0.99

00:21:45.580 The answer to that, I want to think that those kids, if they were only black in that class,

00:21:52.220 they would say, no, we want everybody here.

00:21:55.000 And I think, at least that's what I hear from my children,

00:22:01.300 that kids generally do not want to get separated, to get driven apart by the skin color. 0.57

00:22:08.500 Although what's happening, what was happening to my kids specifically, it was funny,

00:22:15.460 they used to have only dark, let's say, dark colored skin friends or girlfriends, right, a few years ago.

00:22:25.240 And all of a sudden, not all of a sudden, but gradually, things started to change, right?

00:22:30.280 And I see that now they tend to associate more with the same skin color individuals,

00:22:43.820 which is, to me, is very disturbing.

00:22:47.360 And I guess there's that social engineering that is taking place that takes kids apart.

00:22:53.620 And there's another aspect to that, is that don't those kids,

00:22:58.440 if that's a hypothetical example with a class filled with only black kids,

00:23:02.820 like, don't they feel, wouldn't they feel humiliated by such pitiful attitudes

00:23:09.260 by the government to treat them as if they were somehow inferior to whites or Asians or whoever else, right?

00:23:18.380 Right. And it's, that's my main question.

00:23:21.280 I'm asking this question in my article, too.

00:23:23.880 And again, it certainly does run completely contrary to Dr. King Jr.'s legendary,

00:23:31.760 I have a dream speech.

00:23:33.140 But, you know, I'm just wondering, Gleb,

00:23:35.500 we live in a bizarro Superman world where up is down, goodbye is hello.

00:23:43.780 A man can say he's a woman, a woman can say she's a man. 0.94

00:23:47.080 And I'm wondering, did you ever consider using a tactic of the left, which is to say,

00:23:55.020 oh, no problem.

00:23:56.640 Yeah, my son might look like he's a white kid, but guess what?

00:24:00.420 He identifies as a black kid.

00:24:03.760 Did you ever consider employing that card?

00:24:07.580 Or maybe is there a different set of rules also when it comes to race versus, say, gender identification?

00:24:15.400 I thought about that.

00:24:18.260 I don't want to play this game unless it's played with a ridicule and satire.

00:24:27.620 And again, it's something that I'm touching on in my article.

00:24:31.580 So the Human Rights Commission defined race as a social construct.

00:24:39.020 So I guess they ignore the anthropology similar to how the gender is now misidentified or identified as a social construct.

00:24:49.060 So this is the same garbage that is falling through.

00:24:52.820 So I could have played that game, and I kind of did, right?

00:24:59.460 In my article, I describe myself as Asian.

00:25:04.120 And it's true. 0.56

00:25:05.420 Based on the definition that the Human Rights Commission gave, right?

00:25:09.820 I am Asian.

00:25:10.640 I am more Asian than I am white, or how it is traditionally defined.

00:25:16.720 But I am not really joking, right?

00:25:19.860 I'm just playing the same game.

00:25:22.140 They dealt the cards.

00:25:23.800 I took the cards, and I'm playing it.

00:25:25.760 So they said I cannot apply and claim racial discrimination because I'm white.

00:25:32.660 I'm saying, sorry, guys, based on your definition, I'm not white.

00:25:35.100 I'm Asian.

00:25:35.440 I was born in Asia.

00:25:37.380 I like Asian food.

00:25:38.720 I drive Asian car.

00:25:42.520 I mean, there's so much more Asian in me in terms of the social construct than anything else.

00:25:52.740 So I do confirm.

00:25:55.220 Jackie Chan, my famous action movie star.

00:26:00.240 So how much Asian do you want to be in me? 1.00

00:26:06.440 So anyway, that's a long answer to your question.

00:26:11.440 I don't want to play this game.

00:26:13.620 It's silly.

00:26:14.600 Yeah.

00:26:15.200 And I only play it when it's, when I kind of, I don't know, when I want to make a point, make a statement rather than actually leave through this.

00:26:27.020 Well, you know, Gleb, the other thing, too, is that when it comes to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, these entities, they're non-elected.

00:26:38.120 They're unaccountable.

00:26:39.440 They're driven by a perverse ideology.

00:26:42.200 But what I'd like to ask you is, where in blue hell is the minister of education, Stephen Lecce?

00:26:51.660 He is supposedly a conservative education minister.

00:26:56.940 But it looks like the crazy ideology of the progressive left, of the Marxists, if I dare say, he's okay with that.

00:27:10.000 Why?

00:27:10.480 Why?

00:27:10.520 I personally do not relate to those labels, liberal or conservative, very well.

00:27:17.180 I just speak about the points.

00:27:19.440 I don't consider myself liberal or conservative.

00:27:23.120 So to me, it's really not even a question of how come you are conservative and you stand behind those values.

00:27:31.980 All right.

00:27:33.300 I mean, color yourself whatever you want.

00:27:36.900 Color yourself with whatever red and blue colors.

00:27:40.520 To me, it doesn't really matter.

00:27:43.180 I mean, he does support all that stuff, all that racial discrimination that is now overwhelming the schools.

00:27:58.360 Because he is in support of this transgender ideology that is saturating our universities, our colleges. 0.79

00:28:07.520 And I happen to have three kids and university, a high school and a middle school.

00:28:16.100 So I get to experience everything that is coming from Stephen Lecce and, I guess, his surroundings.

00:28:24.160 And it's not good.

00:28:24.920 Well, I'll tell you, Glenn, to me, with all due respect, it does matter whether it's conservative or liberal.

00:28:31.560 Because going back to 2018, one of the policy planks that the Ford PCs ran on was they were going to undo the radicalized McGinty-Winn sex ed curriculum that the previous liberal governments had brought in.

00:28:52.680 And I would argue that sex ed curriculum in 2023 is way worse than what it was under the liberals.

00:29:01.220 And now we see this perverse race card being played in which some kids are given an opportunity based on skin color.

00:29:12.640 Others are told they're not allowed to participate.

00:29:18.340 It's odious.

00:29:19.420 It's a modern-day system of apartheid, if you ask me. 0.50

00:29:22.580 The last question, Gleb, is there anything, aside from exposing this in your article, you can do?

00:29:30.260 Have you thought about, for example, taking the government to court on this?

00:29:35.440 Well, that's what I'm doing.

00:29:36.800 And technically, the Ministry of Education is the government organization.

00:29:40.120 So I am taking them to court, to the Human Rights Tribunal, which is a court.

00:29:45.200 And right now, I am not anywhere close to fighting the Ministry of Education in court.

00:29:53.840 What I'm doing is I'm fighting a court to allow me to sue the government or to sue the Ministry of Education.

00:30:02.240 Because the court is part of the system, right?

00:30:05.660 So I have so many giants to go through.

00:30:10.840 Yes, but...

00:30:15.200 I think you're going to be doing via the Ontario Human Rights Commission or tribunal as a court.

00:30:20.740 But I mean, a real court.

00:30:22.660 I mean, you call the Ontario Human Rights Commission a kangaroo court.

00:30:28.000 I think you might have just insulted 100% of marsupials on this planet by labeling them that way.

00:30:34.600 I mean, actually going to a real court of law.

00:30:38.600 Because I think this is a fool's errand.

00:30:41.200 I think they're simpatico with the school, the Ministry of Education.

00:30:46.600 And they're going to justify this kind of selective racism.

00:30:50.700 Last word goes to you, my friend.

00:30:53.300 If you feel the grudge in my article.

00:30:55.900 So my grudge is not with the government per se.

00:30:59.700 The governments do what the governments do.

00:31:01.640 They have always been into the control of the crowd and not really...

00:31:08.200 The freedom is the last thing they're looking for, right?

00:31:10.980 My grudge is with the low-profile people who know that something is not right,

00:31:17.440 but prefer to go with a path of less resistance.

00:31:21.320 It's not even those fervent, brainwashed activists who promote those ludicrous ideas.

00:31:30.480 And I can at least appreciate their unfounded enthusiasm and animalistic passion, right?

00:31:38.080 But it's those 60, 70, 80% of people who think that their immediate comfort overrides any dignity or any human decency, if you will.

00:31:50.320 And that children will be just fine as long as they don't stick their necks out.

00:31:55.800 And that's what's in my article also.

00:31:59.020 And that's what I'm calling for.

00:32:00.240 Well, this ball looks like it's still in play.

00:32:04.040 I hope you'll give us an update if there's any kind of outcome one way or the other.

00:32:08.060 I think this kind of nonsense has to be stopped.

00:32:12.360 It is racism.

00:32:14.800 It is discriminatory.

00:32:16.820 It is just like the system of apartheid that existed in South Africa in yesterdecade.

00:32:23.040 And we must take a stand against this kind of garbage and this social engineering.

00:32:28.020 It is horrible, bad news, and a terrible precedent.

00:32:31.600 Gleb, thank you so much for joining me today.

00:32:34.640 Appreciate it.

00:32:46.320 Well, folks, lots of feedback to last night's edition of the Ezra Levent Show,

00:32:51.900 including Ezra's interview with Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayer Federation.

00:32:57.340 That was about how Trudeau has hired 98,000 new bureaucrats since taking office back in 2015.

00:33:10.220 Imagine that.

00:33:11.280 DNAC1827 writes,

00:33:14.720 98,000 more liberal voters.

00:33:17.560 Oh, I dispute your math.

00:33:20.220 Remember, a lot of those bureaucrats, no doubt, are part of family units.

00:33:24.440 Guess who they're voting for as well.

00:33:28.460 Outrageous.

00:33:29.780 And then there was Ezra's monologue on the, well, the scam of recycling.

00:33:35.080 You know, how we separate our waste, but it all goes into one big hole at the end of the day.

00:33:40.560 Alberta Pipeline 4264 writes,

00:33:46.520 I think most Canadians would be shocked to find out how many provinces in Canada do not recycle beverage containers,

00:33:55.760 pop, beer bottles, beer cans, and the likes.

00:33:59.040 I know it shocked me.

00:34:00.900 They still charge you a deposit on the bottles or cans.

00:34:04.360 They're just named differently.

00:34:07.260 Recycling fee, environmental fee, and so on.

00:34:10.680 Well, you know what, my friend?

00:34:11.600 I'm a big fan of refillable bottles.

00:34:15.660 And in Ontario, we do have that with beer bottles in the beer store system.

00:34:22.180 And once upon a time in convenience stores, we actually had refillable pop bottles.

00:34:28.400 But you know what, Coke and Pepsi back in the 80s, they lobbied the provincial liberal government back then to get out of the refillable bottles.

00:34:41.340 They would front, I think it was something like $40 million to start something in Ontario called the blue box system.

00:34:48.380 It turned out to be a big, bogus piece of corporate welfare.

00:34:54.720 If the government and the soda companies really cared about the environment, which they say they do,

00:35:01.460 they would bring back refillables.

00:35:03.880 But it's not part of their business plan.

00:35:07.520 Unbelievable.

00:35:08.540 Well, folks, that wraps up tonight's edition of the Ezra Levent Show.

00:35:12.460 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:35:14.320 The big boss man, Ezra himself, he'll be back here tomorrow.

00:35:17.980 In the meantime, as always, stay safe and stay sane.

Rebel News Podcast - July 11, 2023

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Trudeau's theatrical address to military on climate change and disinformation leaves troops questioning his priorities

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